Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization
Items are categorized differently depending on the behavioral context. For instance, a lion can be categorized as an African animal or a type of cat. We recorded lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity while monkeys switched between categorizing the same image set along two different categor...
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| author | Roy, Jefferson Riesenhuber, Maximilian Poggio, Tomaso A. Miller, Earl K. |
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| description | Items are categorized differently depending on the behavioral context. For instance, a lion can be categorized as an African animal or a type of cat. We recorded lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity while monkeys switched between categorizing the same image set along two different category schemes with orthogonal boundaries. We found that each category scheme was largely represented by independent PFC neuronal populations and that activity reflecting a category distinction was weaker, but not absent, when that category was irrelevant. We suggest that the PFC represents competing category representations independently to reduce interference between them. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/709032022-10-01T09:51:51Z Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization Roy, Jefferson Riesenhuber, Maximilian Poggio, Tomaso A. Miller, Earl K. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Biological & Computational Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Miller, Earl K. Miller, Earl K. Roy, Jefferson Poggio, Tomaso A. Items are categorized differently depending on the behavioral context. For instance, a lion can be categorized as an African animal or a type of cat. We recorded lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity while monkeys switched between categorizing the same image set along two different category schemes with orthogonal boundaries. We found that each category scheme was largely represented by independent PFC neuronal populations and that activity reflecting a category distinction was weaker, but not absent, when that category was irrelevant. We suggest that the PFC represents competing category representations independently to reduce interference between them. National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (Grant 2R01MH065252-06) 2012-05-22T16:28:04Z 2012-05-22T16:28:04Z 2010-06 2010-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0270-6474 1529-2401 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70903 Roy, J. E. et al. “Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Flexible Categorization.” Journal of Neuroscience 30.25 (2010): 8519–8528. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-0455 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4837-09.2010 Journal of Neuroscience Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Society for Neuroscience SFN |
| spellingShingle | Roy, Jefferson Riesenhuber, Maximilian Poggio, Tomaso A. Miller, Earl K. Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title | Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title_full | Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title_fullStr | Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title_short | Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization |
| title_sort | prefrontal cortex activity during flexible categorization |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70903 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-0455 |
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